Bits and Clips for February 2015
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The photo above is the road to Cape Cod…
And here are the articles, blogs, podcasts and videos from this month that I felt were worth sharing. I hope you find something enjoyable, inspiring, intriguing, helpful or enlightening:
Art:
- MOMA Matisse Cut-Outs: Walk through the Gallery
- When an Abstract Artist Falls in Love with Monet
- Maurice Sendak on Passion, the Risk of Art, and Never Having Written for Children
- Artist Spends Five Years Covering Kitchen with Millions of Glass Beads
- Henri Rousseau’s Heartening Story of Success After a Lifetime of Rejection
- How I Make My Fiber Books
- 75 Graffiti Artists Tagged a Prison-Like School to Show that Low Income Kids Deserve the Arts Too
Photos:
- Artist Creates Beautiful Order for Foraged Objects
- Charming Photos of Animals in Finland
- Mastering the Art of Snow
- Root Upon Root: By Kate Gibson Oswald
Spirituality:
- Greatest Thing in the World
- Inspiration on a Walk
- Short Podcast: Conscious of God
- We Must Think Critically…
- Feeling Loved: The Story of a Spiritual Journey
- Thought Gently Whispers…
- This Moment of Your Living
- Prayer That is Fresh and Inspired
Ideas:
- 11 Things Empty Nesters Want Parents of Little Kids to Know
- 15 Ways to Practice Compassion Today
- Are We Wringing the Creativity Out of Kids?
- The Last Trial
- What I Changed for the Sake of My Kids
- Conflict and Ego
- A Psychiatrist’s Open Letter to Young People About Fifty Shades of Grey
- The Smart Way to Teach Children About Money
- The Best Thing You Can Do For Yourself and the Women Around You
- 17 Luxury Hotels for Under $100/night
- Presence, not Praise, How to Develop a Healthy Relationship with Achievement
- A Brief History of Happiness: How America Lost the Good Life and Where to Find it Now
- What ISIS Really Wants
- Techies Who are Hacking Education by Homeschooling Their Kids
- Writing Your Way to Happiness
- Why Preschool Shouldn’t be Like School
- Delicious Visual Map of History
Books:
Movies:
Food:
- South American Influenced Power Breakfast: Poached Egg on Quinoa
- Any Old Guacamole Just Won’t Do
- Quickly Peel a Hard-Boiled Egg by Shaking it in a Glass of Water
Poetry:
- Pulitzer Prize winning Mark Strand on the heartbeat of Creative Work and the Artist’s Task to Bear Witness to the Universe
- Mary Oliver: Listening to the World
- Mary Oliver on a Life Well Lived and How to be Fully Alive
Hope:
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